Friedman: 806 books
Martin Buber
The Life of Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue, the first study in any language to provide a complete overview of Buber's thought, remains the definitive guide to the full range of his work and the starting point for all modern Buber scholarship. Maurice S. Friedman reveals the implications of Buber's thought...
by Richard Elliott Friedman, Shawna Dolansky
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
For millennia, people have used the Bible as a touchstone on important social and political questions, and rightly so. But many use the Bible simply as a weapon to wield against opponents in a variety of debates--without knowing what the Bible actually says about the issue in question. In The Bible...
by Lawrence Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
In this newly revised work, Lawrence Friedman presents a comprehensive and accessible survey of New Hampshire constitutional history and constitutional law. One of the oldest written constitutions in the United States, the New Hampshire Constitution pre-dates the federal constitution and, with the...
After the War Zone
A Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
From the Director and Associate Director of the VA's National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: a highly practical, user-friendly guide that answering all conceivable questions about returning from war--for veterans and families
Two experts from the VA National Center for PTSD provide...
In Our Power
U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In the years following Israel’s 20089 Operation Cast Lead” attack on the Palestinians of Gaza, a new kind of student movement emerged on U.S. campuses, in support of the idea that Palestinians should gain the full exercise of their human and political rights within their historic homeland....
The British Battleship
1906-1946
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Norman Friedman brings a new perspective to an ever-popular subject in The British Battleship: 19061946. With a unique ability to frame technologies within the context of politics, economics, and strategy, he offers unique insight into the development of the Royal Navy capital ships. With plans of...
by Erika Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
A short story: People can say indefensible things during an argument, things that can destroy a friendship even after the details fade from memory. Reconciling is difficult, the first steps the most uncertain.
British Cruisers
Two World Wars and After
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
For most of the twentieth century Britain possessed both the world’s largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a particular interest in the cruiser – a multi-purpose warship needed in large numbers to...
British Destroyers & Frigates
The Second World War & After
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Since the Second World War the old categories of destroyer and frigate have tended to merge, a process that this book traces back to the radically different 'Tribal' class destroyers of 1936. It deals with the development of all the modern destroyer classes that fought the war, looks at the emergency...
British Destroyers
From Earliest Days to the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and costliest exponents of sea power. Not surprisingly,...
British Naval Weapons of World War Two
The John Lambert Collection, Volume I: Destroyer Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been published. These have now been acquired by Seaforth...
The End of Overkill
Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them. A new paper from Benjamin H. Friedman, Christopher A. Preble and Matt Fay...
Nipple Confusion, Uncoordinated Pooping, and Spittle
The Life of a Newborn's Father
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
For new babies, there are the first-year milestones that everyone talks aboutbabys first smile, first steps, and first wordsand then there are all the firsts that everyone conveniently forgets to mention. The first time you find yourself hanging around the baby store parking lot, waiting for the doors...
Monstrous Progeny
A History of the Frankenstein Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically...